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- Tendon - n. - A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.
- Tendonous - a. - Tendinous.
- String - n. - A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
- Tail - n. - The distal tendon of a muscle.
- Quadriceps - n. - The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.
- Insertion - n. - The point or part by which a muscle or tendon is attached to the part to be moved; -- in contradistinction to its origin.
- Digastric - a. - Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.
- Achilles' tendon - n. - The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.
- Sinew - n. - A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
- Eyestring - n. - The tendon by which the eye is moved.
- Nomopelmous - a. - Having a separate and simple tendon to flex the first toe, or hallux, as do passerine birds.
- Stretch - v. t. - To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
- Kneepan - n. - A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.
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